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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(b) "A global participant and power."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "A booming economy."

2. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A new idea.
(b) An accepted idea.
(c) An unaccepted idea.
(d) A revised idea.

3. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rimbau.

4. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Simon Ockley.

5. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1757.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

2. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

3. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

4. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?

5. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?

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